Online scams cost Australians $489 Million
ACCC has released a report detailing that online scams cost Australians half a billion dollars in 2018.“Total combined losses reported to Scamwatch and other government agencies exceeded $489 million –
Free Training Resources
This is a group of links to free education aimed at GP Practice Staff. Check with each individual website for terms and conditions of use. Medicare – Education services for
New RACF Items
‘General Practitioner’ items are90020, 90035, 90043, 90051Item A, b C & D Normally, you will bill one of these for each patient seen at the RACFAnd for ONE of those
When can you do IHI Lookups
Individual Healthcare Identifiers – IHI In Practices we should only perform IHI lookups for patients as part of providing healthcare to them. Above all, this means that we should not
Performance Review
A performance review document is part of a set of connected documents. In practices we have ‘offers of employment‘.‘Offers of employment‘ mention and lead to ‘employment contracts‘.‘Employment contracts‘ mention and
eMail security – what does it all mean?
Email Security There are some basic steps to securing personal information when it comes to email. These include Message encryption email transmission encryption email digital signatures Password protected attachments Normal
Europe’s new privacy legislation GDPR
GDPR – the new ‘General Data Protection Regulation’ from the EU. The EU has new legislation that comes into effect on May 25 (yes few days time) that is targeting
Do you trust your staff to do Medicare Lookups?
Medicare Card Lookup Medicare lookup and verification via HPOS is usually available to ALL staff using site PKI certificate in a web browser. This is a common scenario. Medicare have
Surgery Computer Security
Let me start by asking ‘why good computer security is important to clinics?’ We all know that the security of patient health records is very important under the Federal Privacy
Awful New ‘My Aged Care’ referral process
Copy of feedback sent to DSSfeedback@dss.gov.au This is another really terrible referral process >> https://www.myagedcare.gov.au/referral Already having Blue Care reject paper referrals, and will only accept this Jurassic electronic
Matt Gilchrist’s KPI for practice personnel
KPIs are things that your accountant probably speaks about. KPI stands for Key Performance Indicator. Follows is a list of KPIs that I think are useful in a General Practice
Bullet dodged
Following the announcement yesterday from Federal Health Minister Sussan Ley about the scrapping of the proposed 10 minute minimum for Level B consultations:- I had a drink or two to
Medicare Rant of the day
Background:- with the introduction of the 10 minute minimum for Level B consults effective from Monday of next week (19 January 2015), and trying to get my head around how
GP Registrar Minimum Terms and Conditions
https://ama.com.au/media/ama-media-release-agreement-national-terms-and-conditions-employment-registrars-ntcer Significant changes – effective 19 January 2015. “These terms and conditions apply, by agreement between GPRA and GPSA, for the employment of GP registrars in GPT1, GPT2, GPT3 and